TY - BOOK ID - 149885469 TI - Pamela's War : A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands During the Second World War PY - 2012 SN - 0752477250 PB - Stroud : The History Press, DB - UniCat KW - Wheeler, Pamela Edith. KW - Wheeler, Pamela Edith. KW - Women - England - Worcestershire. KW - Women -- England -- Worcestershire -- Biography. KW - World War, 1939-1945 - Women - England - Worcestershire. KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- England -- Worcestershire -- Biography. KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Women KW - Women KW - Wheeler, Pamela Edith, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149885469 AB - It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a deathly hush has fallen. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, has declared that, despite the best efforts of the politicians of the day to secure 'peace in our time', the inevitable has befallen us; despite pledges to the contrary, Germany has invaded Poland, Hitler has ignored requests to back down and so, therefore, 'Britain is now at ER -